If new retail media upstarts are the Davids in a battle against tech-giant Goliaths, could machine learning be the sling that helps them topple their powerful foes? David Simon, GM, Growth Initiatives, Moloco, thinks so. Moloco is a retail media platform offering a machine learning-powered demand-side platform (DSP) to ecommerce operators, helping them to open up virtual shelf space as ad [...]

NEW YORK – Connected television is becoming the most important video platform for advertisers with the adoption of programmatic media buying. These automated transactions will depend on a variety of supporting technologies to help brands identify the households they want to reach while also respecting consumer privacy. “CTV remains a super exciting area for us,” Frost Prioleau, chief executive of ad-tech [...]

NEW YORK – Retailers that sell advertising offer marketers another way to reach consumers as they shop online, not only helping to drive direct sales, but also to raise awareness for a wide variety of brands. Kroger Precision Marketing, the advertising sales unit of the grocery chain, is among the retail media networks that tout their ability to reach consumers [...]

Three years after a UK study found alarming lack of transparency in the programmatic ad supply-chain, it seems the problem is still rife in many quarters. While a second UK study this year showed "a big step forward" in the proportion of ad spend that actually makes it through to publishers, a US study this summer from the ANA revealed alarming [...]

Advertisers are having to work harder to find audiences - but the search may end at the centre of the Venn diagram of data from TV platforms and retail media. That is according to Carly Friedman, Head of Industry: Entertainment, Gaming, Tech & Telco, Roku. In March 2023, Roku partnered with Best Buy Ads, using the retailer's customer sales data in order [...]

In a world where everyone is talking about AI, David Simon, GM for Growth Initiatives at Moloco, believes the real transformative technology is often overlooked. While generative AI and chat continue to garner headlines, Simon thinks machine learning (ML), which is the fabric of much of AI, could has enormous potential in relatively unsexy areas of media buying. In this video interview [...]

NEW YORK – The popularity of internet-connected devices has given marketers more pathways to consumers, but the precious attention of those audiences is equally divided. This splintering of the media landscape has pushed advertisers to develop cross-platform strategies. “The advanced video ecosystem is highly fragmented, confusing for a lot of clients,” Jay Askinasi, chief executive of Publicis Groupe’s PMX US, said [...]

As Kirk McDonald, North America CEO of WPP's media buying group GroupM, exits the role after three years, his interim replacement has been urging advertisers not to overlook brand-building. McDonald's exit was confirmed by several news outlets this week. Mindshare’s global CEO Adam Gerhart will fill the role in the interim while GroupM searches for a full-time replacement. According to a memo [...]

In a world where outcomes-driven measurement has dominated the media landscape, the definition of outcomes has evolved significantly. "It used to be outcomes was e-commerce because you could easily track what people were buying online," Geno says in this interview with Beet.TV at Advertising Week New York. "Then outcomes became store traffic because you could work with certain location data providers to [...]

The media industry is riding a wave of innovation, and Comscore believes the best approach to combine it all. Although traditional measurement providers are coming under scrutiny in the multi-screen, cross-device era, Senior VP of TV & Cross-Platform Analytics, Joe Ruthruff, says layering the best data sources the way ahead. Beet.TV spoke to him at the 12th annual CIMM Summit. The company [...]

NEW YORK - Each upfront sales season for television advertising in the past few years has brought more ways to set the value of media transactions, or what are known as currencies. These developments are changing the way that marketers and media agencies are spending billions of dollars. “There is momentum towards the alternate currencies,” Bharad Ramesh, executive director of research [...]

At this point in the evolution of digital advertising, there is an increasing focus on supply path optimization (SPO), as companies aim to maximize their ad efficiency. But, beneath the acronym, how does SPO actually work, and how does it translate to connected TV advertising? Lara Koenig, Global Head of Product, MiQ, says there are lessons to be learnt from this dynamic [...]

Retail or ecommerce media - in which ecommerce operators carve out ad inventory in their store to sell to brands - is growing fast. But how are brands embracing the trend? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Scott Decker, North America Media Strategic Planning Lead, HP, paints a picture of the challenges and opportunities. The Core of Retail Media Strategy "For HP specifically, it's [...]

NEW YORK – The popularity of smart TVs and other connected devices has given consumers multiple ways to access their favorite programming, whether it’s live sports and news or scripted series. For broadcasters such as CBS, the fragmentation of the marketplace has led them to adopt their methods of distribution. “We're about making the biggest, best shows out there, and we [...]

NEW YORK – Advertising agencies are broadening their mandates to limit the negative effect of marketing activities on the Earth’s natural resources. Amid those efforts, suppliers of services throughout the marketing supply chain are looking to help reduce its carbon footprint. “We've been taking a really big approach to sustainability at Sharethrough since…the end of 2021 when we started learning just [...]

Once upon a time, "addressable TV" signified linear TV platforms that had engineered a way to enable targetability. The emergence of fully internet-enabled connected TV systems has meant a massive upgrade over that vision of addressability. Yet "addressable" is still an expanding area, Anastasia Dukes-Asuen, Sr. Director, Advanced TV Data & Insights, Ampersand, tells Beet.TV in this video interview at Advertising Week [...]

Retail media, for a long time, has been perceived as emerging from non-traditional media budgets. This perspective is now changing, with funds coming out of more traditional media budgets. That is according to Amy Lanzi,who, as CEO, Digitas North America, is taking a keen interest in the trend. The Changing Landscape of Retail Media Budgets Retail or ecommerce media - in which ecommerce operators [...]

In the last couple of years, the TV ad industry has been noting, kicking the tyres of and, ultimately, adopting non-traditional measurement and trading systems. By and large, they purport to do a better job of quantifying and facilitating transactions for ads across multiple screens. iSpot.tv is a major vendor in the space, with a growing number of major-publisher agreements. In this video [...]

In an era where the digital advertising industry is fraught with concerns over measurement, Ashwin Navin, CEO & Co-founder of Samba TV, is seeking to address the unmeasured. Now Samba is partnering with a purchase data company to plug the gap. In this video interview with Beet.TV at Advertising Week New York, Navin explains how his company aims to fill in the [...]

What lies at the intersection of Madison Avenue and Wall Street? As someone once described as "Madison Avenue's de facto chief economist", Brian Wieser has brought incisive analysis to the evolving advertising business. As senior research analyst for Pivotal Research Group, Wieser carved a niche with sharp commentary on major media stocks, before going in-house as GroupM's global president, business intelligence. In January [...]